In a case involving a corporate structure with multiple employers, the Fair Work Commission has found that a company's Facebook message to an employee of a related entity telling her it would be inappropriate for her to return to work amounted to the termination of her employment.
Action taken by six CFMEU construction and general division organisers in 2010 to coerce Abigroup to employ four union members on the Peninsula Link freeway project in Victoria has cost them and their organisation $230,000 in Federal Court fines under the repealed Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act.
A clothing company has lost its bid to remove outworkers who are "legitimate subcontractors" from the modern textile and clothing award, despite receiving sympathy from a Fair Work Commission full bench for its argument that the embattled industry needs greater flexibility to combat a flood of cheap imports.
The AiG has reiterated its concerns with the Coalition's plan to delay until after the next federal election any changes stemming from the upcoming Productivity Commission IR inquiry, and maintained Prime Minister Tony Abbott's paid parental scheme would "pose an unfair cost burden" on larger employers.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has quashed a ruling that a Jetstar unfairly dismissed an employee for fighting with a co-worker on Melbourne airport's tarmac and should be reinstated.
FWC President Justice Iain Ross has responded to suggestions from employer and union participants in the annual wage review and initiated an early consultation process ahead of the closing date for submissions.
The NSW Auditor-General is calling on the State's Department of Education to improve its collection of feedback on casual teacher performance and to use it when assigning its pool of 50,000 casual teachers to schools.
The Federal Circuit Court has reversed an order allowing a non-lawyer company chair and alleged accessory of two IT companies to appear in a Fair Work Ombudsman sham contracting case, after he brought a multi-million dollar compensation cross-claim against the regulator.
